Al Adiyat

1 I swear by the runners breathing pantingly,

1 By the racers, panting,

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the snorting courses,

2 Then those that produce fire striking,

2 And the producers of sparks [when] striking

2 Striking sparks of fire

3 Then those that make raids at morn,

3 And the chargers at dawn,

3 And scouring to the raid at dawn,

4 Then thereby raise dust,

4 Stirring up thereby [clouds of] dust,

4 Then, therewith, with their trail of dust,

5 Then rush thereby upon an assembly:

5 Arriving thereby in the center collectively,

5 Cleaving, as one, the centre (of the foe),

6 Most surely man is ungrateful to his Lord.

6 Indeed mankind, to his Lord, is ungrateful.

6 Lo! man is an ingrate unto his Lord

7 And most surely he is a witness of that.

7 And indeed, he is to that a witness.

7 And lo! he is a witness unto that;

8 And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.

8 And indeed he is, in love of wealth, intense.

8 And lo! in the love of wealth he is violent.

9 Does he not then know when what is in the graves is raised,

9 But does he not know that when the contents of the graves are scattered

9 Knoweth he not that, when the contents of the graves are poured forth

10 And what is in the breasts is made apparent?

10 And that within the breasts is obtained,

10 And the secrets of the breasts are made known,

11 Most surely their Lord that day shall be fully aware of them.

11 Indeed, their Lord with them, that Day, is [fully] Acquainted.

11 On that day will their Lord be perfectly informed concerning them.